Monongahela Power Company

Monongahela Power Company is a subsidiary of Allegheny Energy. Incorporated in Ohio in 1924, the company services approximately 378,600 residential and commercial customers West Virginia. Monongahela Power, along with West Penn Power and Potomac Edison, comprise the Allegheny Power arm of Allegheny Energy. It has power plants with 2,806 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity.

In 2006 American Electric Power, through its Columbus Southern Power (CSP) utility subsidiary, completed the purchase of Monongahela Power Company´s Ohio operations. "The purchase price was approximately $46 million. In addition, CSP will pay Allegheny $10 million associated with the termination of certain litigation. Through the purchase, AEP acquired 29,000 Monongahela Power customers in six southeastern Ohio counties and all transmission and distribution assets located in Ohio serving those customers."

Coal Ash
Monongahela's Harrison plant was among those examined in a May 2009 study by the the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice, which laid out suppressed findings of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on coal ash. The study showed that EPA officials, under the Bush Administration, did not make public an October 2002 coal ash study that outlined increased risks as high as 1 in 50 additional cancer cases. EPA later published some of the data in an August 2007 study, but even then the agency report left out some key information about additional dangers to aquatic ecosystems and wildlife from toxic metals leaching out of unlined or inadequately lined coal-ash dumps.

Contact Details
Monongahela Power Company 1310 Fairmont Ave. Fairmont, WV 26554 Tel. 304-366-3000 Fax 724-830-5284 Website: http://www.alleghenypower.com

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